Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1919 — REFUSED TO EAT “LIVE” CIGARETTE. [ARTICLE]

REFUSED TO EAT “LIVE” CIGARETTE.

New York, Dec. 15.—Testimony that he had disobeyed an order from Captain, Karl W. Detzer to swallow a lighted cigarette was given ■ today by Private Marcello Gonzales, of San Antonio, Texas, at the court martial on Governors’ Island of Captain Detzer, charged with bnitality to prisoners in criminal investigation headquarters at Le Mans. The charge that- Gonzales had been compelled to eat the cigarette was one of the most sensational of the twenty-eight specifications facing the officer, who as commander of the 308th military police company, had charge of investigation work in the entire troop area. A previous witness had testified to hearing the order given, but said he did not see what became of the cigarette, as he had left the room. Gonzales stated that despite the order he had flung the “butt” to the floor of the guard house.